Psalm 54:3 Arrogant foes are attacking me; ruthless people are trying to kill me-- people without regard for God.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Arrogant foes are attacking me; ruthless people are trying to kill me-- people without regard for God.

English Standard Version
For strangers have risen against me; ruthless men seek my life; they do not set God before themselves. Selah

New American Standard Bible
For strangers have risen against me And violent men have sought my life; They have not set God before them. Selah.

King James Bible
For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For strangers rise up against me, and violent men seek my life. They have no regard for God. Selah

International Standard Version
For the arrogant have arisen against me; oppressors have sought to take my life. They do not keep God in mind! Interlude

American Standard Version
For strangers are risen up against me, And violent men have sought after my soul: They have not set God before them. Selah

Douay-Rheims Bible
For strangers have risen up against me; and the mighty have sought after my soul: and they have not set God before their eyes.

Darby Bible Translation
For strangers are risen up against me, and the violent seek after my life: they have not set God before them. Selah.

Young's Literal Translation
For strangers have risen up against me And terrible ones have sought my soul, They have not set God before them. Selah.

Cross References

1 Samuel 20:1
And David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan, What have I done? what is my iniquity? and what is my sin before your father, that he seeks my life?

1 Samuel 25:29
Yet a man is risen to pursue you, and to seek your soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD your God; and the souls of your enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling.

Psalm 18:48
He delivers me from my enemies: yes, you lift me up above those that rise up against me: you have delivered me from the violent man.

Psalm 36:1
The transgression of the wicked said within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.

Psalm 38:12
They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.

Psalm 40:14
Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.

Psalm 63:9
But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth.

Psalm 70:2
Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt.

Psalm 86:14
O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul; and have not set you before them.

Psalm 140:1
Deliver me, O LORD, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man;

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

54:1-3 God is faithful, though men are not to be trusted, and it is well for us it is so. David has no other plea to depend upon than God's name, no other power to depend upon than God's strength, and these he makes his refuge and confidence. This would be the effectual answer to his prayers. Looking unto David, betrayed by the men of Judah, and to Jesus, betrayed by one of his apostles, what can we expect from any who have not set God before them, save ingratitude, treachery, malice, and cruelty? What bonds of nature, or friendship, or gratitude, or covenant, will hold those that have broken through the fear of God? Selah; Mark this. Let us set God before us at all times; for if we do not, we are in danger of despair.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

3. strangers—perhaps Ziphites.

oppressors—literally, "terrible ones" (Isa 13:11; 25:3). Such were Saul and his army.

not set … them—acted as atheists, without God's fear (compare Ps 16:8).